If anyone wants to help fund our ad campaigns, you can use the
PayPal buttons above, or you can email me directly: Alec Rawls at
alec@rawls.org. If anyone would prefer to
pay a newspaper directly for one of our ad buys, that can also be arranged.

Tenth anniversary ad campaign: Tom
Burnett Sr. and I are running a series of large color ads every day of the week
leading up to the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Each ad is 2/3rds of a page in
color on the back of the front section of the Somerset Daily American, below the
weather map, so this is prime placement. The linked PDFs are to the actual ad
copy.

We also ran two advertisements in July, pressing the "Who
broke the circle?" question: They
call the design a broken circle now instead of a crescent, but the unbroken part
of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is just
the original Crescent of Embrace? So who is being depicted by architect Paul
Murdoch as breaking the circle of peace on 9/11? It can only be the terrorists,
who are also depicted as leaving a giant Islamic shaped crescent in its place.

Anyone can run any of these ads in their own local paper (just
send them the links and they'll download the PDFs for themselves). People might
be surprised at how affordable the free weeklies can be. For instance, a
1/3 page color ad in the Silicon Valley Metro, circulation 500,000,
costs $500. A third of a page is just about right for the flyer part of the
first broken-circle ad, and the layout people can always scale width and height
to fit the space someone is buying. Here is the flyer formatted as separate ad
copy (click image for PDF):

Here is the full page full-color ad that Tom Burnett and I ran in the Somerset
Daily American for
the 9/11 anniversary weekend 2010 when the Laura Bush and Michelle Obama were
both visiting.

If you would like to help fund future ads, just hit the tip
jar, and THANKS!

If you want to run an ad in your own local paper, email
alec@rawls.org and I will put together an ad
together to suit your purpose.

Posters and flyers

Updated 8.5x11 map
of the crescent site plan (2-26-08), showing where the
different Islamic and terrorist memorializing features are being built:

Click on thumbnail
for the full high resolution PDF (300dpi). Anyone can print this
out and post it as a flyer around town or campus. The high resolution also
allows it to be viewed in fine detail in on your computer screen.

Has the size and the resolution to provide clear graphical
proof of a couple of the main terrorist memorializing features of the crescent
design. Comes out great on Kinko's glossy cardstock ($3 a pop). You might have
to explain that they have to choose "no scaling" in the "page handling" section
of Adobe's print dialog box, otherwise the print software will automatically
increase the margins. (Content is same as for the large ad copy posted below,
but the ad copy is borderless. Kinko's can print that version too. Just tell
them it is designed to print at 300dpi on 11 x 17 paper with 3/4 in borders.)

Below are PDFs of four foam-boards that Tom Burnett is taking
to a Republican convention in Wisconsin at the end of April 2008. Each board
illustrates one of the four objections that are highlighted in our
petition for a
Congressional investigation into the crescent design.

Ad tells the people of Somerset how the Memorial Project has
managed to garner final approval to start building Murdoch's mosque, despite the
fact that every Advisory Commission member is fully aware of the factual
accuracy of my claim that a person facing into the giant central crescent is
facing Mecca (something I learned from one of the Advisory Commission members at
the meeting). Starts off with an important CORRECTION: the Johnstown Times
Tribune DID publish reporter Kirk Swauger's verification of my Mecca-orientation
claim.

CORRECTION: The copy for the above ad has a crucial error
in it. I leave it posted here for reference purposes only. DO NOT download and
republish this ad!

The above was a great ad BUT, it includes a crucial error that
I am going to have to run another half page full color ad to correct. I claim in
the above ad copy that the Tribune Democrat failed to publish reporter Kirk
Swauger's verification that a person facing into the giant central crescent of
the Crescent/Bowl of Embrace design will be facing almost exactly at Mecca. In
fact, Kirk's
published article does include this bit of fact checking:

His claims seem to be backed up by coordinates for the
direction of qibla from Somerset that can be found on Islam.com. When
superimposed over the crescent in the memorial design, the midpoint points over
the Arctic Circle, through Europe toward Mecca.

For the life of me I can't figure out how I managed to read
past that paragraph (it being the one thing I was looking for). And believe me,
being able to cite Kirk's fact checking would have been much more useful to me
than having to claim that the Tribune Democrat was suppressing its own
fact checking. But however I managed to get this wrong, I now have to fix it.
Kirk Swauger and Tribune Democrat editor Chip Minemyer deserve high
praise for conducting and publishing this crucial bit of fact checking, not the
condemnation that I wrongly laid on them.

Full color high resolution map of Islamic and terrorist
memorializing features superimposed on crescent site-plan, along with text
explaining how the Johnstown Tribune Democrat suppressed its own fact
checking in order to use known-to-be-misled Flight 93 family members to block
for the hijacker. (My Error Theory post about the Trib-Dem's abuse of the family
members
here.)

This ad will run on the back page of the front section of the
Somerset Daily American, July 23, 2007!

You can download this ad and run it in your own paper
(expensive), or you can help fund more ad buys by hitting the tip jar:

If you have some money, this is your chance to help tackle the
hijacker. Just download this ad copy and take it to your local newspaper, or
send it to some Pennsylvania
newspaper, for
publication.

At three column widths, this ad cost $550 to run in the
Johnstown Tribune Democrat (medium size paper) and $250 to run in the Somerset
Daily American. Both charged only a few dollars more to run the ad in their free
weeklies as well. The free weeklies, with ad rates of a couple dollars a column
inch, might be the best dollar value for getting the word out.

So far the only people who have learned about the Islamic and
jihadist features of the planned Flight 93 Memorial are people who get their
information online. To reach out to the much larger public that gets its
information through the old media, it will take ad buys. (The Pittsburgh Post
Gazette has know about the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent since
September 2005, but refuses to publish it. See
download 3, page 108.)

There is even a chance to start a chain reaction. The ad sends
people here to the website, and if they have deep pockets themselves, they can
fund more ad buys. Think of it, not just as an ad buy, but as lighting a fire.

If you want to help make an ad buy, but don't want to do it
yourself, you can make a donation, which I will use to pay for the couple
thousand dollars worth of ads I have already bought out of my own pocket, and to
buy more ads.

If you have big money, here is a big color ad you can run
(based on the 11 x 17 poster).

The ad covers about 80 column inches (depending on how wide
the columns in your newspaper are). A medium-size paper charges about $50 per
column inch for "general" advertising, and another $600 or so to run the ad in
color. That's about $4,500. Larger papers may charge five times as much, smaller
local papers about half as much. Open it up to see the impact. If we can run
this baby, knockout.

Similar to the poster, but does not include as much detail.
Your web browser should open this file in a PDF pane with a "save" button at the
upper left. There is lots of resolution so go ahead and zoom in for closer looks
if you want. The image is sized to leave 1/4 inch borders when printed full size
(100% scaling).
It does not include a border, but should automatically center in an 8.5 x 11
sheet when printing.

Like the Tower-sundial ad, this was made to be a three column
ad, but can be run bigger or smaller.

Copyright permission

Anyone can download, print and post or publish this material. The flyer (8.5 x 11)
can be printed on any color printer. The graphics details are pretty small, but
the file has a lot of resolution (300dpi) and is perfectly
readable.

To print the poster (11 x 17 at 300dpi) you will probably
have to take or email the file to your local Kinko's or other print shop. Kinko's charges about $1.80 for plain paper copies, $2.50 for matte cardstock
copies, and $3.00 for glossy cardstock copies. All look great.

I put copyright notices on some of these downloads, but hereby grant anyone
permission to reproduce, transmit, transfer, publish, and even sell reproductions if they want to try, on
condition that they do not alter the content without my permission, except to
add announcement of a discussion or some such.

A note about the overlay of the crescent
site-plan on Google Earth: To fit the site plan as best I could to
Google's composite image, I rotated the site-plan .5° counter-clockwise. This
minor discrepancy between the orientation of the site plan and the orientation
of the satellite images seems to come from a discrepancy between the satellite
images and the available maps of the area, rather than from any manipulation of
the available maps. The site plan matches up perfectly with the map included in
Appendix B, page 21, of the Memorial Project’s June 2007 Final General
Management Plan (http://www.flight93memorialproject.org//docs/FINAL2--Appendices.pdf).